Shooto lightweight champion Hatsu Hioki
will lock horns with Jeff Lawson
in a non-title affair at Sengoku Raiden Championships 14 on Aug. 22
at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo. Ten bouts are now official for
the event, which will air live on HDNet.

Hioki has won six of his last seven fights. The 27-year-old
Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt defeated “Lion” Takeshi
Inoue by split decision to win the Shooto lightweight crown at
“The Way of Shooto 3” two months ago. Nearly half (10) of his 21
career victories have come by submission. Wins against former TKO
featherweight champion Mark
Hominick (twice), one-time Sengoku lightweight titleholder
Masanori
Kanehara and UFC veteran Jeff Curran
anchor his resume. In 27 professional appearances, Hioki has never
been finished.

A quarter-finalist on Season 9 of “The Ultimate Fighter” reality
series, Lawson will carry a two-fight winning streak into his
promotional debut. The Englishman needed just 57 seconds to submit
UFC veteran David Lee under
the British Association of Mixed Martial Arts banner in May. None
of Lawson’s 17 bouts have gone the distance.

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